Science

‘Turning to Stone’ paints rocks as storytellers and men...

Part memoir, part geology explainer, Marcia Bjornerud’s latest book explores the...

This spider makes its home in the burrows of extinct gi...

Caves made by extinct giant ground sloths make the perfect home for a newly disc...

The nearest midsized black hole might instead be a hord...

Astronomers recently reported that the Milky Way star cluster Omega Centauri hos...

The world’s record-breaking hot streak has lasted 14 mo...

Science News spoke with NOAA climatologist Karin Gleason about the ongoing recor...

This spider uses trapped fireflies to lure in more prey

Male fireflies trapped in the spider’s web flash femalelike lights, possibly lur...

Old books can have unsafe levels of chromium, but reade...

An analysis of a university collection found that the vibrant pigments coating s...

A distant quasar may be zapping all galaxies around itself

Star formation has ceased within at least 16 million light-years of the quasar. ...

This spiky fossil shows what early mollusks looked like

The fossil, plus 17 others from more than 500 million years ago, reveal that ear...

More than 4 billion people may not have access to clean...

The new estimate, based on data from 135 low- and middle-income countries, is mo...

The asteroid that may have killed the dinosaurs came fr...

The Chicxulub crater, left behind by the impact, contains elemental traces that ...

Astronauts actually get stuck in space all the time

Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams join more than a dozen astronauts who’ve been ...

Why mpox is a global health emergency — again

The WHO made the declaration as a potentially more infectious version of the dea...

A hunger protein reverses anorexia symptoms in mice

Boosting levels of protein ACBP spurred the mice to eat and gain weight. It is u...

Scientists want to send endangered species’ cells to th...

Climate change is threatening Earth’s biodiversity banks. It might be time to bu...

Stonehenge’s mysterious Altar Stone had roots in Scotland

New analyses indicate that this weighty piece of the site’s architecture, once t...

Nasty-tasting cane toads teach crocodiles a lifesaving ...

After tasting nausea-inducing toad butts, crocodiles in Australia learned to avo...

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